Drug resistance among top threats: WHO
NEW DELHI: Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) has been identified as one of the 10 threats to global health in 2019 by World Health Organisation (WHO). The other threats on this list include HIV, Ebola, dengue,
Ebola Virus Disease ( Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever)
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Nigeria Have Reduced Poverty Rate By 50%-Jonathan
President Goodluck Jonathan on Saturday,in Benin said, the country had reduced its poverty rate by 50 per cent. While speaking at the South South Peoples Democratic Party political rally in Benin, tagged
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European Agency Collects Data on Experimental Ebola Treatments
LONDON - The European Medicines Agency said on Friday it had started collecting data from pharmaceutical companies trialling experimental medicines to treat Ebola in a bid to speed up the process to find
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Ebola death toll passes 3,000: WHO
The death toll in the world’s worst-ever Ebola epidemic has now soared past 3,000, with the virus killing almost half of the more than 6,500 people it has infected, according to World Health Organization
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Ebola: an open letter to European governments
In an open letter published in The Lancet, leading health experts urge European governments to 'mobilise all possible resources’ to assist West Africans in controlling the Ebola epidemic. The letter is
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Norway to give Liberia $150m to fight illegal logging that may spread Ebola
Norway will give Liberia up to $150m (£92.1m) over the next six years to fund protective measures aimed at stamping out illegal logging in its agricultural sector, which some scientists believe may have
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U.S. Forecasts more than 500,000 Ebola Cases in W. Africa
Global experts issued stark new warnings of the scale of West Africa's Ebola outbreak on Tuesday, with the U.S. government estimating between 550,000 and 1.4 million people might be infected in the region
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Ebola death rates 70% - WHO study
New figures suggest 70% of those infected with Ebola in West Africa have died, higher than previously reported, says the World Health Organization. Ebola infections will treble to 20,000 by November
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Ebola epidemic: experimental drugs to be rushed to Africa
Vaccine trials under way as experts fear disease could become endemic in worst-hit areas of Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia Experimental drugs are to be fast-tracked into west Africa so that they can
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Ebola kills 2,811, outbreak 'contained' in Senegal, Nigeria — WHO
The deadliest Ebola epidemic ever has now killed 2,811 in west Africa, the World Health Organisation said yesterday, adding though that in Senegal and Nigeria the outbreak had been basically contained.
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U.S. forecasts more than 500,000 Ebola cases in West Africa
Global experts issued stark new warnings of the scale of West Africa's Ebola outbreak on Tuesday, with the U.S. government estimating between 550,000 and 1.4 million people might be infected in the region